The Wood Family Blog: December 2009

Lost in 2 Months

Posted by ry at Monday, December 28, 2009 comments (0)

On February 2nd, 2010 the sixth and final season of Lost airs on ABC. On December 6th, Katie and I decided we would attempt to watch all 5 previous seasons on DVD before the new season begins.

As of December 27th, we're two seasons down, three to go. To recap, it took us 3 weeks to get through 49 hour-long episodes, averaging about 2 episodes a day. In reality, with Katie in LA a couple days a week and other distractions, we haven't watched episodes every day, and we've really done a lot of catching up over Christmas break and on weekends. In fact, we've watched so much lately that we killed our 6-year-old DVD/VHS player, and since we got rid of all our VHS tapes not long ago, the death of the player wasn't too hard on us. A quick trip to WalMart to get a replacement player and we were back on track.

How does this bode for the remainder of our marathon? We've got 54 episodes to go in 5 weeks. We only need to watch an average of an episode and a half per night to make our goal. Barring any emergency hospital trips from false labor, another DVD player death, or any other cataclysmic event... I think we'll be fine :)

3rd Wedding Anniversary (and our 200th post!)

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Katie and I were married in the LDS San Diego Temple
on December 28th, 2006.

We honeymooned along the California coast.

We had a handsome baby boy named Carter Harrison
on February 11th, 2008.

He'll be 2 in a couple short months, and he's our rambunctious little superhero.

We're expecting another adorable son in March 2010.

We've moved 3 times, experienced all the joys and troubles of home, work, school, and child-rearing, and had tons of laughs.

I've known Katie for almost seven incredible years, and I look forward to being with her forever. Happy anniversary, honey!

The LONG Drive Home

Posted by mae mae at Wednesday, December 16, 2009 comments (0)

I know this is a few weeks old now, but I wanted to finish blogging about our Thanksgiving trip to Utah. Ryan had to get back to work the Monday after Thanksgiving, so we decided we would leave fairly early Sunday morning to give us plenty of time in case there was traffic. Everything started out just fine and we were making really good time.

We saw some snow outside Cedar City.

Carter was having fun entertaining himself.

We stopped in St. George for a very brief visit with a friend and then continued on to Vegas where we had lunch. There hadn't been any traffic and we were really happy that we were over half-way home. Then we got on the other side of Vegas and everything came to a complete stop and we were stuck in major traffic almost the rest of the way home. We had complained about the traffic on the way to Utah, but we soon realized that was nothing compared to the 9 hours it took us to get home from Vegas. And that is why we will NEVER travel the Sunday after Thanksgiving again!

On the bright side, once it got dark the lights from the brake lights ahead of us and the headlights from the cars in the opposite direction reminded us of a big candy cane.

And by some miracle Carter was either happy

or sleeping the whole time.

Early Christmas

Posted by mae mae at Friday, December 4, 2009 comments (0)

Since we were driving to Utah for Thanksgiving, we decided to bring our Christmas presents for the Woods and Tolmans with us. We even convinced them to open their presents early because we wanted to see the joy on their faces when they opened them. :) We also brought Ryan's dad's birthday present with us since we would be going home just a few days before his special day.

What could it be?

An awesome Legoland hat to remember his awesome son's awesome job! :)

Ryan's mom loves lighthouses

...and seashells

It's easy to find "personalized" gifts for Lauren at Christmas :)

It's hard to see, but the candle holder says Joy

Brett loves The Simpsons, so we made him a Bart mosaic.

Another awesome Legoland hat!

From the Tolmans. Somehow we didn't know this book existed, even though we're the Battlestar fans!

It's pretty scary how well they know us! :)

Someone woke up cranky from his nap

Showing off his cool book

A lion from Grandma and Grandpa Wood. (They let him have one of his presents early and he'll get the rest on Christmas.) He loves making it say "roar".

Thanksgiving in Utah

Posted by mae mae at Thursday, December 3, 2009 comments (1)

We decided to spend Thanksgiving with Ryan's family in Utah, so we hit the road Wednesday afternoon when Ryan got out of work and eventually made our way to his parents' house around 4:30am. Fortunately, we were able to get some much needed rest before the Thanksgiving festivities began. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with tons of great food and lots of family.